Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-18

ture and deride him; and when a few
weeks after that he got the London papers
as he opened them, out few the hornet.
When / see that there are so many people
IN the world who like to say disagreeable
things and write disagreesbIe things,
come almost in my weaker moments to
believe what man said to me in Phii&-
delphia one Monday morning. l went TO
get the horse that was at the livery, snd
the hostler, plain man, said to me:
"Mr. Talmage, saw that you preached
to the young men yesterday" l said:
Eyes" He said: "No use, no use; Gian's
failure
The small insect annoyances Of life
sometimes come in the shape Of q local
physical trouble, which does not amount
to positive prOstration, but which both
ers you when you want to feel the best.
Perhaps it is 8 sick headache which has
been the plague of your fe, and you ap-
point some occasion of mirth, Or social
ity, or usefulness, and when the clock
strikes the hour you cannot make your
appearance. Perhaps the trouble is be
tween the ear and the forehead in the
shape of neuralgia tWinge. Nobody can
see il or sympataize with you; but just
al the time when you want your intellect
clearest, and your disposition brightest,
you feel a sharp, keen, disCOncering
thrust The Lord sent the hornet.
Perhaps these small insect aEnogauces
will come in the shape Of d domestic irri-
tation. The parlor and the kitchen Go
not always harmonic. To get good ser
vice and to keep it is one of the great
questions OF the country. Sometimes it
may be
THE ARROGANCY
and iEcCnsIdera teness OF employers; but
whatever be the fact, We ali admit there
are these insect annCyanCe6 Wingiug their
way out from the culinary department.
If the grace Of God be not III the heart Of
the hOusekeeper, she cannot m4intain her
equilibrium. The men come home at
night and hear the story Of these annoy
apces, and say, 80! these home troubles
are very little things" They are small,
small as waspe, but they sting. Martha's
nerves were all unstrung when she rushed
in asking Christ to reproVe Mary, and
there ere tens of thousands of women
who are dying, stung to death by these
peStiferOuS domestic annOyAnceS. The
Lord sent the hornet.
These small insect disturbances may
also come in the shape of business yrri-
tatiOn. There are men here who went
through 1857 snd September "a, 1863,
without losing their balance, VINO are
every day endorsed by little annoyences
"a clerks ilL-manners, or blot of ink
on a bill If Iading, CT the extravaganza Of
partner who overdraWs his account, or
the undertaking by a business rival, Or
the whispering Of business condolences in
the street, or the making Of some little
bad debt which was against your judg-
ment, Just 10 please somebody else. It's
not the panlcs that Kill the merchants
P&ulcs come only once in ten or twenty
Years, 1t is the constant din pi these
everyday aDGOyanCeS which is sending
so many Of cur best merchants into nery-
Gus dyspepsia and paralysis and the
grave. When our national commerce fell
fat on its face, these en- stood up and
felt almost defiant; but their life is Civ
lug. way now under the swarm Of these
pestifer0us apEOyanCes. The Lord sent
the hornet
l have noticed in the history OF some
of my congregation that their anuOyauCes
are multiplying, and that they have
hundred where they used to have ten.
The naturalist tells Us that 9 wasp
SOMETIMES HAS FAMILY
Of 10000 wssps, and 1t does seem as ii
every annoyance CT your life bred
million. By the help Of God to-day |
want to show you the other side. The
hornet is of no use? Oh, yes! The
natulalists tell US they are very important
in the worlds economy; they Kill spiders
and they clear the atmosphere; and l
really believe God sends the annOyances
of our life upon US to kill the spiders Of
the soul and to clear the atmosphere of
our skies. These 6nnOyanCes are sent on
Us, think, to wake US up from cur letn-
argy. There is nothing that makes g man
so lively as a nest of "yellOw Jackets"
and l think that these annOYanCes are iu-
tended to persuade Us Of the fact that
this i8 not world for US to
stop in. If we had bed Of
everything that was attractive &nd
# and easy, what would we want Of
Heaven? You think that the hollow tree
sends the hornet, or you think the devil
sends the hornet. l want to correct your
opinion. The Lord sent the hornet
Then [ also think these GnnOyances
come upon US to culture our patience
In the gymnasium you find upright par
alel bars-bars with holes over each
other for pegs to be put il. Then the
gymnast takes a peg in each hand and he
begins to climb, one inch at a time, or
two inches, and getting his strength cUl-
tured, reaches after awhile the ceiling
And it seems to me that these annoy
ances in life arc moral gymnasium, each
worry q peg by which we are 10 climb
higher and higher in Christian attain
ment. We all love to see. patience, but
it cannot be cultured in fair weather.
1t is child of the storm. If
you had everything desirable and there
was nothing more to get, what would
you want with patience? The only time
to culture it is when you are
sLANDERED AND CHEATED,
and sick and half dead. con-" you say,
''if only had the circumstances of some
well-to-dO man / would be patient too"
You might as well say, "If it were not
for this water | would SWIM" or, 81
could shoot this gun if it were net for
the caps" When you stand chin-deep
in annoyances is the time for you to
swim out toward the great headlands of
Christian attainment, and when your life |
is loaded to the muzzle with repulsive |
annOyances-that is the time to draw the |
trigger. Nothing but the furnace will |
ever burn out of us the clinker and the !
Stag. l have formed this theory in re-
gard to small annoyances and vexations
1t takes just so much trouble to fit Us for |
usefulness and for Heaven. The only |
question is, whether we shall take it in |
the bulk, or pulverized and granulated |
Here is one man who takes it in the bulk |
His back is broken, or his eyesght |
put out, or some other aw-
fol calamity hefalls him. while |